November 26, 2024 7:42 pm

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WHEN THE MUSIC BECOMES POETRY: Cielito lindo, by Quirino Mendoza y Cortés

CIELITO LINDO De la sierras morenas, Cielito Lindo, vienen bajando. Un par de ojitos negros,cielito lindo, de contrabando. Ay! ¡ay! ¡ay! ¡ay! Canta y no llores! Porque cantando se alegran, cielito lindo, los corazones. Pájaro que abandona, Cielito lindo, su primer nido, si lo encuentra ocupado, Cielito lindo, bien merecido. Ay! ¡ay! ¡ay! ¡ay! Canta y no llores! Porque cantando …

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WHAT STARTS AND ENDS: Poetry, María Baranda

WHAT STARTS AND ENDS That starts and ends, when she looks at the precipice of blue ink? And it is having been behind the bars of the sunrises, bent, dig now in your meat cut, scratchy tucked the summit, opening heaven in your particles under the caste rain water. Woman on which beach you will, in which your ships and …

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Max Švabinský (1873/1962), Czech painter: Dreaming by colours, between Plenarian, Realism and Syobolism styles

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THE CASE OF UNFAITHFUL KLARA: Romance, by Viewegh Michal

THE CASE OF UNFAITHFUL KLARA The exclusivity of the feeling of love, in a particular novel, one where you browse pages that contain simple words, sentences and are a love betrayed, in a few pages. Perhaps, by reading what happens to the protagonists of these events afflicting hearts, you too will close the book feeling you in a strange condition, …

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KAZIMIR MALEVICH (1878/1935), POLISH-RUSSIAN PAINTER: The pioneer of geometric abstract art, full of straight lines and squares

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WHEN THE MUSIC BECOMES POETRY: Mykola Lysenko, the Taras Bulba Overture

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdPQR25nnKs (Mykola Lysenko)

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TIMELESS BOOKS: Near wild heart, novel, by Clarice Lispector

NEAR WILD HEART       Imagine a prism, imagine that right inside of it a light illuminates the wild heart of life. Imagine that Joana – the protagonist of this novel – is wrapped in that light, living and dreaming, dreaming of a school inside the forest and cats drinking milk, in small plates of gold. That little girl …

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SERGEJ IVANOVIC OSIPOV (1915/1985), RUSSIAN PAINTER: The internal force of any object, linked with the theme of Motherland

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WHEN THE MUSIC BECOMES POETRY: Rhapsody, by Sergej Vasil’evič Rachmaninov

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgtEUr_n9vM (Sergej Vasil’evič Rachmaninov)

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TIMELESS BOOKS: Dead Souls, novel by Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol

DEAD SOULS You should imagine a Russia far, particular and mysterious, get to see an affable trafficker in “dead souls”. That was the way of looking at people with no money and good birth. The serfs. Imagine, now, that the newcomer is particularly imaginative, that his mind analyze the possibility of reducing taxes for the benefit of “living souls”, ie …

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